PageTailor: Reusable end-user customization for the mobile Web.
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
ISBN-13: 9780494272831
Description: Most pages on the Web are designed for the desktop environment and render poorly on the small screens available on handheld devices. Existing techniques to support small screens require that either providers handcraft device-specific versions or automatically adapt Web pages ignoring the interests of the user. We introduce Reusable End-User Customization, a technique for adapting Web pages for the limited screens of handheld devices. We present PageTailor, an adaptive Web browser that implements this technique, and lets users adapt the layout of Web pages. We show that users can utilize PageTailor to adapt sophisticated Web sites, such as Amazon, BBC and MSN, for browsing on a PDA. We also show that user customizations remain effective for up to a year, even as the content of pages is updated, and that customizations can be reused across similar pages, limiting the customization effort required to browse an entire site.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 3183.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2007.

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